[1168] in bugtraq
Re: the qf file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Software Test Account)
Fri Mar 3 12:16:11 1995
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 08:59:17 -0600 (CST)
From: Software Test Account <softtest@wu1.wl.aecl.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199502251942.OAA11194@narq.avian.org>
To: *Hobbit* <hobbit@avian.org>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
On Sat, 25 Feb 1995, *Hobbit* wrote:
> I messed with this a little too -- it appears that you have to get a message
> queued for retry later. Lots of sites run with Odbackground in their .cf
> files and Sendmail will try to fire off a delivery right then and there,
> using the "ctladdr" it got from the current SMTP session. If you can get a
> message to queue, though, possibly by CCing to a site that's down, and jam
> the extra "Croot" or "Cdaemon" or whatever line into the queue file, Sendmail
> will read and believe this during the next queue run, and turn on stuff like
> file and program delivery. Euugh.
>
This does indeed work quite fine -- _EXCEPT_ -- you need to be root to
modify the qf* files and place them back into the /var/spool/mqueue
directory. This is even true for most handicapped UNIX OS's....
Erik
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